Lincoln County Leader from Toledo, Oregon • Page 1

mtimln Werner. VOLUME 18 TOLEDO, LINCOLN COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1910. NUMBER 25 fXII TNTV NPW Ncws of each Community Gathered each wvy 111 I nUYTO Week bv Our RustlW Assnointn PVm DOUBLE MURDER AT SILETZ Robert Felix Shoots Martha Metcalf and John Spencer, Then Committs Suicide. Last Saturday at about noon news came from Siletz that Robert Felix had shot Martha Metcalf and John Spencer. Sheriff Ross and Deputy Sheriff McElwain immediately started for the Agency keeping a sharp lookout enroute for the murderer who was reported coming this way.

Soon after they had 'started, word came that Felix had committed The shooting occured at John Spencer's place just this side of the Agency. It seems that Mrs. Met- calfi who is divorced from her husband, has been living with Felix, also that Spencer was infatuated with her. Felix and the Metcalf woman were at Spencer's place and when Felix wanted to go home she refused to go with him, saying she was going to remain at Spencers. Spencer accordingly went to taking her things out of the wagon, paying no heed to Felix's commands to leave them alone.

Thus infuriated Felix whipped out his gun and shot Spencer in thi forehead killing him instantly. At this Mrs. Metcalf turned on Felix demanding to know why he shot a man for nothing, whereupon he shot her twice the second shot piercing her heart. He then turned his gun on Mrs. Spencer but she begged so strongly for her life that he let her go, and come on over to his home on this side of the river.

Immediately that he left, Mrs. Spencer hastened to the Agency and notified the authorities who started immediately for the scene of the crime. On taking up Felix's trail and following him to WaMport. ing up his farm. Numerous deer were killed in thee hay weather and are improving south end of the county on Perhans there will not.

sn opening day of the season Clarence Palmer and family are visiting near Waldport. Mr. Palmer expects to enjoy a few day's hunting. C. I.

Leaveneood of Roseburer many poor cattle this coming winter. A Mr. Smith, a cattle buyer from near Portland, was in our parts trying to buy cattle but offered suoh low prices that he got none. He told us the butcher at Newport got has bought a lot in Waldport from all the beef he wanted at 4c a pound 11 111 1 Aiex ampoen oi uorvallis. Mr.

dressed. Is it true? Leavengood will build. Captain Williams of the Oregon Lots of campers on the beach from almost everywhere. Soma City Transportation Company is have come to spend the summer camped with his wife and family near the Keady place. Sidney J.

Myers and family have been visiting in Waldport. Mr. Myers owns property here. Miss Bessie Hays is visiting Mr. and Mrs.

James Kent and will remain several months. Paul Perkins came down last week looking for beef cattle for the Porter market of Newport. The Wilhelmina brought in a big cargo of flour and provisions on her last trip. John Doyel has returned home after a lengthy visit in the Willam ette valley. Baldwin and Stouder have a con tract for renewing the foundation under the old Waldport hotel.

C. N. Thompson who is out for County Commissioner has riled his nominating petition with the County Clerk. Henry Nice is spoken of as a can didate for the office as representa tive for Lincoln and Polk counties. Miss Grace Graff returned to Portland last Friday after a pleasant visit with Waldport relatives.

Mr. Cuttler is in from Dallas. Little Francis Parmele is quite sick. land for a month or six weeks. J.

M. Gardner and family have just returned from Portland. Ed. Harris, wife and child are moving on to their place now. Mr.

and Mrs. Culler of Portland are guests at Harding's this week. The blackberries are plentiful up in the mountains. Parties are Imj-ing organized to make a raid on them. Mr.

Paul lost a very valuable horse the other day. Mr. Holley of Portland is camping at Boulder bridge. He is having the time of his life he says. Mrs.

McMillen and children and M's. Sliger are at the beach for an 1 caiicy j.uiiCo intends spoiiuiiiiz two months' with her sister in the! XT Valley I ileni-y Dealen has returned from the beach and reports an enjoyable Someone started a fire on the trip. Boughey place between the sawmill i and ihe Siletz river. If it gets' YachatS A 1 .1 away irom tne men mat are watch-1 Mig8 Crogno of ToleJo ig ing it it will destroy the timber of Yachats. the whole biletz country.

It must have been started from a man lighting his' pipe. Why will men be so careless of other people's property? This fire is already in at the the large trees and if it cannot he controlled it will ruin this whole county. Mr. McClintook is quite siok. It is thought he has appendicitesand will have to be taken to the hospital for an operation.

Miss Lida MtClintock is spending her vacation with her parents. lady friends came with her. Judge Gardner and wife and Mrs. Gardner's cousin, Mr. Henderson, and wife were guests of Mr.

and Mrs. George Wood. 1 1 ii i Hxr nr i t. uiiueiMHiiu mat tne a nee M. Montgomery of the Port-1 i i i j-'ciis eixen was somewhat land Custom house is camping 4l of a failure, ns there was mmo Miss Essie Shinn nml Mrs.

Geo. Spring were among the visitors last week. Fisher's auto brought down a number of passengers Sunday. Miss Hilda Johnson is visiting at the home of her brother Frank. J.

R. Hays and family have gone to the Willamette valley. Mr. Hays is under a doctor's care. Silas Howell and Mr.

Weidman went to Waldport Tuesday. Mr. Two' UeKlman remained several days on business. The woods are full of hunters. Deer are plentiful and we will try and toll you about the hunting next week.

resile u. livens and wile were fishing at the Yachats Sunday. lit It 1 mr. Hall and U. It.

livens were i oeai kocks. oozen with too mch local option, among the hunters who came down Ihe Waldnort Central riffiee nn T. i it seems that the John I. Butter- aiuport. his home, they lound him dead on uce" cuangeu io tne postomce build- i i i liner nnnnaitot u'iu.

i i nul1 school district can not come to Mrs. C. 11. Evens recently found the bed, having placed the muzzle lnS opposite the Walker Lcbow aa i i i i sfriro nuctiiur niey wuiu liiiu ugaiu wimiii oi me caiK3 nf his fiin in his month nnri nnllpil oiure. X' the trigger.

The Corvallis band has been en gaged to furnish music during the Tidewater carried off the honors yuite a crowd attended the ex- thiq cursion to Tidewater Sunday. A ball game was the attraction and RoSG LoflffP 3 i one, two or tin ecschoolhouses built It is similar to those found a few years ago by Sterling and Blodgett of Portland. is building in the south east part of town. W. H.

Henderson and wife and Judge Gardner and wife spent last week with Mr. and Mrs. George Wood at Kernville, tisMng etc. Nine room house, six blocks from beach, ocean view, rooms now renting from $5 to $7 per week. Price Teachers' Examination.

Notice is hereby given that the County Superintendent of Lincoln county will hold the regular exami four days of the Fair next month, The Waldport team hardly got Eu? aml mo" Renus Arnold has commenced the game. i Ust iU'nved froni the Ei-lst- construction on his house which he I J1'UU)t a iu Kernville jary surgeon, and has a government or api'licants for State and There seems to be nr. position in South Dakota. I ulllv PW v.VHJH Vf bad colds going the rounds and it is' There was a large crowd at Mono respecter of persons. Mr.

and Millen's dance and everyone seemed Mrs. Almon Bones are real sick. nave a Bod time. Mr. Parmele has been bedfast the FOR STATE PAPKIIS Commencing Wednesday, August 10, at 9 a.

m. and continuing until Saturday, August 13, at 4 p. Miss May Cook went un to visit past week. The old gentleman Mr. 1 Kingsley's on 7-9 last Friday even-! i Vnt (, i u.

ednesday Penmanship, His- uum tne aney luiiiiuiiig iiume ounciay even- an- in i tfl I I to spend a month on the beach, got ing SHOO; 1600 down, balance $100 so sick he had to bnr it per year at 6 per cent interest L. C. Smith, Newport, Or J. W. Bones sold his interest in the Oshkosh to the company.

We are blest with boat service. Reading, Psychology. Thursday Written Arithmetic, gers, baggage and freight given prompt attention. Kyniston Jensen, Props. Lost On the railroad track between Yaquina and Toledo, an agate brooch.

Finder please return to Ena Stout, Yaquina, Or. Lost. Ladies' gold watch, monogram on front of case. Lost last Friday between the residences of J. J.

Gaither and Dan Grady. Finder please return to Toledo Post-office and receive liberal reward. Mrs. F. M.

Wadsworth, Jr. Nothing like being right up with j.1 a. mi un automobile Thcory of Teaching, Grammar, Portland went through here Sun- Bookkeeping, Civil Government, das. going to Mr. Chas.

Harding's. Friday-Physiology, Geography, Ihe car belongs to the man that f1wI. it. The steamer Oshkosh came in last Dug't the Broad-mead Tarm near erature School I nw Toledo Siletz Stage Daily except Sunday. Passen-'Have had a boat once aweeklatelv Thursday with freight for G.

Parmele Sons S. Balston. Miss Adele Golf of Seattle came Mr. Nethey came in to look after' Saturday to spend a few weeks the lumber of the Grays Harbor Lumber Company which was sawed and piled on the bank of Drift river last Fall. The Oshkosh was to have taken it out this time but the boat was two days late and Mr.

Nethey thinking it might not come for a month, returned home. The lumber is still on the bank. J. W. Bones is selling out.

He intends spending the winter in the Valley. Jeise Farrin is burning and clear- Saturday Botany, Plane Geometry, General History. FOR COUNTY PAPERS 'Commencing Wednesday, August 10 at 9 a. m. and continuing until with the Nelson's Mnv Rnrt.nn iht mnil nnrnnv nno wi.

IIUO a very bad hand. They fear blood Friday, August 12 at 4 p. m. poison has set in. Wednesday Penmanship, His- Mr.

and Mrs. Cecil Gosper of Top Spclling' fading, Physical Side Inn are giving a dinner party GcoKraPny- i nursuay written Arithmetic, Theory of Teaching, Grammar, Physiology. Friday Geography, School Law, Civil Government, English Literature. Yours truly, R. P.

Goin, Supt. of Schools. Sunday. The guests are: Mr. Kingsley and wife, Wes.

Horner and wife, Mr. Beaver and wife, Roy Horner and Miss May Cook. A. D. Baker left for the Valley Thursday.

Charley Orwig has gone to Port- CITIZENS DEMAND AN ELECTION Comtnitte of Three Appointed to Draw Up an Initative Petition and File it With City Recorder. Last Saturday evening alout fifty citizens of Toledo met at the city hall for the purpose of considering ways and means for securing a city water system, the water for said system to lw furnished from the stream of Mill creek. E. J. A'ery was chosen chairman of the meeting and R.

E. Collins secretary. A nntnlier nf prominent citizen? made talks, showing that the meeting was purely a business proposition, and that no hard feelings was felt toward the present water company, ns it had used every effort to furnish water to its patrons, expending large sums of money in the attempt The necessity of plenty of pure water for the uso and consumption of the inhabitants of a town, also the fact that manufacturing plant cannot locate here until wo have more water, was explained. A committee of three was appointed to draw up an initative petition, get -he necessary number of signers, and file it with the City Recorder, by Monday, August 1, demanding that the City Council call a special election for the purpose of amending the city charter and voting on the water question. Those appointed on the committee were, Hugh Corgan, A.

T. Peterson and Joseph Swearingen. The committee prepared the potion as requested and secured forty signers. The petition demands that an election bo called for Monday, October 10, for the purpose of submitting to the legal voters of Toledo, for their approval or rejection, the amending of the City Charter to provide for landing the city and installing a water system to furnish the city with water from the stream of Mill creek. The petition was filed with the Recorder Monday and taken up by the Council that evening.

On a vote being taken all tho councilmen were in favor of the petition being filed and the election called as ordered. Bids Wanted. For painting Elk City School House, one coat, in District No. 1, Lincoln County, Oregon, according to" specifications which will be furnished by the Clerk. Bids to lie opened August Gth, 1910.

Painting to Ijc finished Sept. 1st, 1(110. The Board reserves tho right to reject all bids. C. L.

Morrison, Dist. Clerk, Dist. No. 1. Chas.

Allen, Chairman. Bulla For Sale One full-blood Jeisey bull, 4 months old, subject to register; one I Jersey bull, six months old. Mrs. Bruseth, Elk City. Mutual phone.

On old Adam Rae place. For Sale Three horh'estead relinquishments. Beautiful 20-acre fruit farm, one" mile from Toledo, on the Olalhi, price Several oilier places ranging iu prices from500 to $40,000. Two farms for rent. Sondre Romtvedt Jr.

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